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Feb 10, 2019

Anderson Silva Wants Nick Diaz Rematch In Brazil

Anderson Silva is eyeing a spot on the Curitiba card in May.
Last night (Feb. 9), Silva went one-on one with Israel Adesanya. The
bout served as UFC 234’s main event. After three rounds of action,
Adesanya was awarded the unanimous decision win.
Anderson Silva vs. Nick Diaz II?

Silva told Jon Anik in his post-fight interview that he’d like to
compete on the UFC 237 card on May 11. He doubled down on that wish
while speaking to reporters during the UFC 234 post-fight press
conference and he even wants a rematch with Nick Diaz (via Damon
Martin):

“Now I have a chance to fight in my city where everything started. I
talked to Ed [Soares] and I talked to my team, maybe I think make sense
fight me and Nick Diaz in Curitiba. Let’s go see. Just waiting for Dana,
cause it’s not time to make a good decision or not but hopefully I go
fight in Curitiba.

“It’s a very interesting fight because the last fight with me and Nick
is a no contest. I talked to [Nick’s manager] a couple of months ago
about this fight and Nick said ‘OK, let’s go do it. Let’s go talk to
Dana and let’s do it’. Let’s go see. I don’t know. I’m just waiting for
Dana.”

Silva and Diaz competed back in Jan. 2015. “The Spider” initially won
the contest via unanimous decision. The result was changed to a No
Contest when Silva popped for banned substances. Diaz’s training partner
and close friend Gilbert Melendez recently said the Stockton native is
retired. It’ll be interesting to see if Diaz makes an exception.https://www.geezgo.com/sps/53819